Dear Mr. and Mrs. Googler

I am a senior student of Industrial & Management Engineering department in POSTECH, who has one semester left until graduation. I am looking for a job in a marketing field based on data mining and quantitative analytics, and extremely interested in entering an internship program in your company, Google, a million students would kill for this job. That opportunity will allow me to focus on my interest in marketing as well as provide me with the career possibilities and exposures to resources, such as thousands of real-time updating data and learning tools.


Here is a story how I begin to have interesting about an efficient marketing strategy. When I started an elementary school, I was illiterate. I scored always zero on the dictation test. I barely realized how to read and write by help of comic books. After then whenever I saw store signs on the street, the letters on the signs made a sound in my head. It was amazing at first. However, it happened regardless of my will. Worse, there were thousands of signs outside. The sound gave me a headache after all. Since then, I’ve considered how put the ad in the right spot for potential customers. That’s AdSense powered by Google.


As an Intern at Business Process Innovation Group of Samsung Electronics, I obtained practical experience in forecasting demands and Global Supply Chain Management which is one of core competitiveness of Samsung. Also, as the reporter of an official university newspaper at POSTECH TIMES, I have led many celebrity interviews and feature stories. As an opinion leader, I was able to learn about communicating with both sides of the dispute, controlling the quality of the group’s output, and overseeing projects aimed at making long-term improvements of the group’s processes. Finally, based on my experience of serving for the KATUSA, Korean Augmentation Troops to the United States Army, for military service, my command of English do not cause any difficulty of communication working in English–speaking environment.


I believe that my experience, along with the enthusiasm and a high energy that I will bring to the job qualifies me for the position you are seeking to fill. I look forward to the opportunity of meeting you for an interview. Thank you very much for your attention and patience.


Sincerely,
Roh, Jihoon

Balance between Work and Family

According to the Korean Herald, the National Statistical Office (NSO) has announced that the South Korea’s total fertility rate dropped to 1.08 last year, and reports the number of newborns has also dropped nearly 8 percent to 438,000. The fertility rate is the lowest in the world, and broke South Korea’s 2004 record of 1.16(click here, for full text).

There are a lot of reasons concerning the low birth rate. Most of all, child rearing is getting more difficult. That's the obvious reason. As the list of 100 best companies to work for 2007, almost one-third of the best companies offer on onsite child-care center. Here is the rank.

In many ways, however, Korean companies need to consider about employee's family. The balance of between Work and Family is hot issue, but it's getting more important than before.
Here is one woman working at frontier of Work and Family area in Korea. Her name is Julie Lim, CEO of WorknFamily. Work and Family Inc. is the family-friendly consulting company in Korea. They offer vital information about bringing up children, taking care of the elderly, educating the disabled and client adjusting Work-Famliy Balance.

I wish WorknFamily will be the leading company in employee's wealth area. Here is some recommendation. First of all, the core capability of consulting firm is the professionalism in their business. They need to proof that they have the best solution. Second, building network with clients is also important. If they succeed to make a buzz with open seminars or brunch meetings, it's really helpful to take the initiative. Finally, they should take proper position in the industry ladder.

Differentiated your business from Ordinary

Would you like to work for Google? Break the Code.
Google made a difficult code to break and attached the post on the wall of M.I.T.
No one knows what the answer is until now, but someone guess the answer to the code implies information of a personnel section. Here is full text.

However, I see the code with another focus. Google made buzz with the code. Just like Seth Godin's saying, Google transform their wanted by being remarkable. It's enough to make attentions from greasy grinds. They have a surprising intellectual curiosity to know everything they can. Also, they have a strong competitive spirit. Therefor, it's working out to hire the talent that Google try to show them a hard nut to crack.

Susie Yoo, Head Hunter

The faster going into knowledge-base-industry, the more important recruiting the talent. Even some leading companies don't use a word 'recruiting' any more, but 'acquisition'. Here is my piece of writing to the readers' column of POSTECH TIMES. After this contributing, ironically Leman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, on 15 Sep 2008.

Anyhow, as many companies feel thirsty to find the talent fitting their company, the professional service firms in HR area are going to be busy. In many career consulting firms, I focused on You&Partners Inc. run by Susie Yoo(유순신). She is an established head hunter magnate. She took a part of big projects related with a multinational enterprise, a large domestic corporation, and a public institution. I first knew there is CEO who is consulting another CEOs with the book, 나는 희망을 스카우트 한다(I'm scouting hope). She suggests how to make your career remarkably using her stories on the book.

Here is a interview video with Mrs. Yoo.


In conclusion, I'd like to post her suggestion about the 11 Requirements to be Global Standard.

1. Great communication skill
2. Expertise in one's own area
3. Flexible think and mild interpersonal relationship
4. Don't hesitate to invest oneself
5. Building international networking
6. Finishing duty with integrity and responsibility
7. Fast decision maker between yes and no
8. Collecting information and using it proactively
9. Disciplining oneself without limit
10. Regarding oneself like owner
11. Conducting on the same pace with speed of thinking